A checklist of the genus Scopula (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) including description of a new species and three newly recorded species from Korea
Author
Choi, Sei-Woong
Author
Kim, Sung-Soo
text
Zootaxa
2016
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131
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4178.1.6
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Scopula butleri
(Prout)
(
Figs 1
B, 2D, 2E, 2F)
Acidalia butleri
Prout, 1913
: 78
. TL: [INDIA] Dharamsala.
Craspedia insolata
Butler, 1889
: 22
. TL: [
INDIA
]
Kangra district
, Dharamsala. [Junior secondary homonym of
Acidalia insolata
Felder and Rogenhofer, 1875
]
Material
examined.
[JN] 1
Ƌ Bijarim, JJ
:
Jeju
,
1 Aug. 2002
(
J.C. Sohn
).
Diagnosis.
This species (wingspan
15mm
) is distinguished by dentate blackish subtermen on whitish fore- and hindwings. The male abdomen and genitalia can be distinguished by the short claw-like left and long, medially bent right cerata on the eighth sternite, the long digitate socii, and the short, distally tapered fibula and thumb-like valvula.
Biology.
The species feeds on Bryophyte species in Japan (
Kaneko 2011
).
Distribution.
Korea
,
Japan
,
China
,
India
.